MoneyMaker Camera Strap Make You As Cool As Bullitt

Shoot like an old-school movie cop with the MoneyMaker holster

If you ever saw a movie cop shrugging on his cool, leather under-jacket holster and thought “I want one of those. Only for my cameras, not my guns,” then your rather obscure wish has finally come true. It’s called the MoneyMaker, but at $175, it might as well be called the MoneyTaker.

The handsome leather holster can hold three cameras at once, one on each side and one in front, ready to go. The setup is like a pair of suspenders: two straps run over your shoulders and cross behind your back. Only instead of reaching your pants, they stop short and join back together at your hips, letting you dangle two SLRs from rings screwed into their tripod mounts.

Then another pair of thinner straps run from the main straps up by your nipples to hold a third camera over your belly.

The result appears very sturdy, even if you do end up looking somewhat like a horse. And having spare cameras to hand can be very, uh, handy. I was shooting a friend’s wedding some years ago (using film!) and both my Nikon F100 bodies locked just as the groom was about to slip a ring up the finger of his bride. I didn’t have anything as fancy as the MoneyMaker, but a Leica M6 loaded with black and white film saved the day. In fact, it turned out to be better than color, as the carpets in the room were Las Vegas-bad.

The MoneyMaker comes in two colors (natural and brown) and two sizes (regular and large). Available now.

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